Peripheral receptor targets for analgesia
Subtitle: novel approaches to pain treatment
By: edited by Brian E. Cairns.
Contributors: Cairns, Brian E.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Wiley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470251317
Subjects: Nociceptors ; Nerves, Peripheral; Analgesia; Analgesics; Pain; Pain -- drug therapy; Analgesics -- therapeutic use; Drug Delivery Systems; Pain -- physiopathology; Receptors, Drug -- physiology
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Role of peripheral mechanisms in craniofacial pain conditions / Barry J. Sessle; title: Role of peripheral mechanisms in spinal pain conditions / Brian E. Cairns & Pradit Prateepavanich; title: Voltage-gated sodium channels in peripheral nociceptive neurons as targets for the treatment of pain / Theodore R. Cummins; title: Potassium channels / Daisuke Nishizawa1, Toru Kobayashi, & Kazutaka Ikeda; title: Voltage-gated calcium channels as targets for the treatment of chronic pain / Joe McGivern; title: Adenosine receptors / Jana Sawynok; title: Acid-sensing ion channels and pain / Roxanne Y. Walder, Christopher J. Benson & Kathleen A. Sluka; title: Vanilloid (TRPV1) and other transient receptor potential channels / Marcello Trevisani & Arpad Szallasi; title: Glutamate receptors / Brian E. Cairns; title: Serotonin receptors / Malin Ernberg; title: Adrenergic receptors / Antti Pertovaara; title: Cholinergic receptors and botulinum toxin / Parisa Gazerani; title: Cannabinoids and pain control in the periphery / Jason J. McDougall; title: Opioid receptors / Claudia Herrera Tambeli, Luana Fischer & Carlos Amilcar Parada; title: Calcitonin gene-related peptide and substance P / Ranjinidevi Ambalavanar & Dean Dessem; title: Role of somatostatin and somatostatin receptors in pain / Ujendra Kumar; title: Cytokines (tumor necrosis factor, interleukins) and prostaglandins / Per Alstergren; title: Neurotrophic factors and pain / Peter Svensson; title: Topical and systemic dosage forms for targeted drug delivery / Urs Hafeli & Amit Kale; title: Gene therapy for pain / Marina Mata & David J. Fink; title: Topical analgesics / Akhlaq Waheed Hakim & Brian E. Cairns.